Removing Fully Adhered Stamps From An Album

Hello, I just purchased an old stamp album and would like to remove the fully adhered stamps and save the album for future use. I was looking at the Super Safe stamp lifter fluid product to use and was wondering if there was another solution. The stamps are not the self adhesive kind.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

How much time do you want to devote to that project? Many years ago I removed all the stamps from an old album, and the process was a labour of love for about a week, as I remember. My album was one with poles and rods mechanism. Pull the rods out, and the pages are easily lifted off the poles.

I simply placed each page with the stamp affixed into a cookie sheet containing soapy water until the stamps soaked off. Then placed the wet stamps face down on paper towels with another towel on top and a big book to help flatten the stamps. Nothig to it.

If the pages are not removable without damage, I suppose you might use a damp cotton swab and dab a little water on each stamp, until they loosen enough to be gently pulled off the page and allowed to dry.

I have never bought a stamp lift product, myself. Good Luck. Have fun!

You did not say what kind of album you have... bound or removable pages. If bound, you would have cut off the binding and create some sort of new binding (2 or 3 hole punch?). If removable, just take the album apart.

I suspect the above would work for the album pages as well, but to save the pages for future use you would have dry and press the album pages just like you would the stamps.

Get an old large page US/world atlas and put the drying album pages inside to dry and press. You might need waxpaper or glassine interweaving pages to protect the pages during pressing. When the atlas pages are full put some weight on top of the closed album to enhance the press process. Leave for a couple of day, than all should be well.

Sorry, it is a bound album and I want to keep it intact. I am going to try and just wet the area with the stamps from behind and see if the stamp lifts up.

thank you

I would try the Pure Citrus process on the stamps and credit card scrape of the stamp album glue residue. Pure Citrus will probably leave a residue on the album, but you should be able to scrape it off with a process of scraping the residue with a credit card and then removing any remaining residue with a cloth rag...

So I finally got around to trying out the stamp lifter. It worked quite successfully and am happy with the results. The album is intact , there is a stain around where the stamp used to be, but I suspect something similar would be there if I tried just plain water. The stamp needed to be flattened and dried, which I did, then put into a stock book for now.